RESOLUTION
BY: COUNCIL PRESIDENT COLLINS-BELLAMY, MAJORITY LEADER RUBBO, MAJORITY WHIP ROBINSON, MINORITY LEADER BREEN, COUNCILMEMBERS PINEDA-ISAAC, DIAZ AND HODGES:
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A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YONKERS TO RECOGNIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND COMMEMORATE FEBRUARY 2026 THE CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH IN THE CITY OF YONKERS.
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WHEREAS, in 1776; people envisioned the United States as a new nation dedicated to the proposition stated in the Declaration of Independence that all are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and pursuit to Happiness; and
WHEREAS, Africans were first brought involuntarily to the shores of the United States as early as the 17th century; and
WHEREAS, African Americans suffered enslavement and subsequently faced the injustices of lynch mobs, segregation, and denial of the basic and fundamental rights of citizenships; and
WHEREAS, in 2023, the vestiges of those injustices and inequalities remain evident in the society of the United States; and
WHEREAS, in the face of injustices people of good will and of all races in the United States have distinguished themselves with a commitment to the noble ideals on which the United States was founded and have fought courageously for the rights and freedom of African Americans and others; and
WHEREAS, African Americans such as Lieutenant Colonel Allen Allensworth, Maya Angelou; Louis Armstrong; Arthur Ashe, Jr., James Baldwin, James Beckwourth, Clara Brown, Blanche Bruce, Ralph Bunche, Shirley Chisholm, Holt Collier, Miles Davis, Larry Doby, Fredrick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, Medgar Evers, Aretha Franklin, Alex Haley, Dorothy Height, Jon Hendricks, Olivia Hooker, Lena Horne, Charles Hamilton Houston, Mahalia Jackson, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, B.B King, Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta King Scott, Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, Rosa Parks, Walter Pay...
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